ABSTRACT
The chapter analyses how mainstream television news media represents Rio de Janeiro and explores the social impacts of the narratives it constructs. It focuses on contemporary transformations in both who controls space and who is allowed to speak. Assessing a set of televised encounters between tourists and journalists from Northern cities and inhabitants of a Southern counterpart, it outlines a hegemonic discourse of gentrification that legitimizes the takeover of public space for private interests and silences community activists.
